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Award News

The 2022 PEN American Literary Award finalists are announced.

The 2022 International Prize for Arabic Fiction longlist is announced.

New Title Bestsellers

Links for the week: NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers | NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers | USA Today Best-Selling Books

Fiction

Reminders of Him by Colleen Hoover (Montlake) appears at No. 1 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

One Step Too Far (Frankie Elkin, Bk. 2) by Lisa Gardner (Dutton; LJ starred review) arrives at No. 5 on the NYT Hardcover Fiction Best Sellers list and No. 7 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Lightning in a Mirror (Fogg Lake, Bk. 3) by Jayne Ann Krentz (Berkley) shines at No. 9 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

Nonfiction

Enough Already by Valerie Bertinelli (HarperCollins) starts at No. 2 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list and No. 4 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list.

The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation by Rosemary Sullivan (Harper) debuts at No. 3 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Blood in the Garden by Chris Herring (Atria) cuts to No. 10 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Just Pursuit: A Black Prosecutor's Fight for Fairness by Laura Coates (S. & S.) starts at No. 14 on the NYT Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list.

Reviews

NYT reviews Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality by Tomiko Brown-Nagin (Pantheon): “a balanced assessment of a brave and brilliant woman who helped to reconfigure the system before she became a part of it.” Also, short reviews of new thrillers including: The Appeal by Janice Hallett (Atria), Reckless Girls by Rachel Hawkins (St. Martin’s), and The Overnight Guest by Heather Gudenkauf (Park Row).

The Washington Post reviews Toxic Positivity by Whitney Goodman (Random): "More than a self-help book, this is a society-help book. It’s ambitious but based on the simple idea of being, as Goodman describes herself, “radically honest” with each other. And it’s about not pushing don’t-worry-be-happy talk on everyone around you, including yourself. Isn’t that something to (genuinely) smile about?"

The Los Angeles Times reviews The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act by Isaac Butler by Issac Butler (Bloomsbury; LJ starred review): “Isaac Butler’s engaging and meticulously researched history... chronicles the way presentational acting—in which the spectator is aware the actor is performing—shifted to perezhivanie, or an actor experiencing her role so truthfully that the audience forgets she is acting.”

Book Marks shares "5 Reviews You Need to Read This Week."

Briefly Noted

Daphne Palasi Andreades, author of Brown Girls (Random; LJ starred review), speaks to Bomb Magazine in an interview about “solidarity and kinship.”

Imani Perry, South to America (Ecco), chats about “writing the story of the American South” and “the space between public and personal narratives” with Lit Hub.

The Chicago Review of Books talks to David Sanchez about “the fertile ground of addiction” in his book, All Day Is a Long Time (Harper).

Dolly Parton discusses her friendship with co-author James Patterson and their new book Run, Rose, Run (Little, Brown, & Co.) with People.

Xochitl Gonzalez, Olga Dies Dreaming (Flatiron), chats about how being a wedding planner prepared her for becoming a novelist with NYT's Inside the Best-Seller List. 

Jamie Harrison, author of The Center of Everything (Counterpoint), answers the Book Marks Questionnaire. 

Entertainment Weekly has a cover reveal for The House of Fortune by Jessie Burton (Ecco).

Tor.com provides an excerpt from Ashley Blooms’s Where I Can’t Follow (Sourcebooks).

CrimeReads shares “5 Great Blizzard Thrillers That Will Speak to Your Snowbound Soul" and "9 Books That Pit the Haves Against the Have-Nots."

Tor.com lists “Five SF Stories Involving Selective Breeding.”

Time has “5 Edith Wharton books to Read After Watching The Gilded Age.”

The Guardian gives “Top 10 novels inspired by Greek myths.”

Lit Hub shares “10 Books for Being Alone" and "The Best of 1970s and 80s Women-Authored Science Fiction and Fantasy."

The Washington Post features reader-recommended "desert island books."

NYT shares "12 New Books Coming in February."

Authors on Air

The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray (Berkley) has been optioned by Al Roker Entertainment for a limited series. Plus, Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko (Grand Central; LJ starred review) will be adapted for Apple TV+. Deadline has more on the story. Also, Pulse Films has optioned the rights to upcoming An Olive Grove in Ends by Moses McKenzie (Hachette).

Titan Comics will publish a graphic novel adaptation of The Man Who Fell to Earth, starring David Bowie and it will be released this fall, according to Entertainment Weekly.

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